Lisbon Meeting

DATE: January 28th—30th 2015

VENUE: Institute of Social Sciences/University of Lisbon

Our team meeting took place on January 28-30 2015 at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. In this meeting, we were joined by the Advisory Board members.

Kick-Off Meeting

DATE: May 28th 2014

VENUE: University of Bamberg

The first meeting of the PATHWAYS project took place on May 28 at the University of Bamberg, Germany. This meeting brought the entire team together, fostering a discussion on work packages’ organization and research avenues to be pursued over the course of the next three years. Several theoretical and empirical challenges have been identified, most notably the painstaking task of collecting data on representation of citizens of immigration origin in significantly heterogeneous institutional and social settings. Our meeting allowed us to lay the foundations of the empirical indicators constituting the backbone of the PATHWAYS project.

ECPR General Conference 2015

DATE: August 26th—29th 2015

VENUE: Université de Montréal, Canada

Project members will be presenting several representation and migration related papers at the ECPR General Conference, 26-29 August, Montreal, Canada.
Papers to be presented include:

Daniela Vintila, Laura Morales, Luis Ramiro & Simona Guerra — The Impact of Migration Flows, Public Opinion and Party Strategies on the Representation of Immigrant Origin Minorities in Countries of Recent Immigration. A Comparison of Italy and Spain

Steven van Hauwaert & Manlio Cinalli — The political integration of migrants and their descendants: Forget welfare and citizenship. It is all about the economy!

MPs of Immigrant Origin in Eight European Countries: A Mid Project Conference

DATE: February 15th 2016

PATHWAYS held a mid-project dissemination event in London with the support of the UK Political Studies Association. In this meeting, the project brought together academics, practitioners and journalists to present and discuss first preliminary results of our project. This offered an opportunity to discuss the political representation of citizens of immigrant origin with stakeholders such as politicians and think tanks involved in questions of citizenship and institutional reform. Our meeting also helped us engage with selected civil society organizations in discussing this important policy-issue and enrich the debate with our comparative findings.

ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops

DATE: April 24th—28th 2016

VENUE: Scuola Normale Superiore, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the University of Pisa.

In April 2016, selected PATHWAYS members had the opportunity to present first comparative findings at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, in Pisa, Italy. Amongst other opportunities, Laura Morales and Thomas Saalfeld directed a workshop on the Representation of Citizens of Immigrant Origin. The meeting also afforded members of the PATHWAYS research group to discuss their findings with other workshop participants.

The following PATHWAYS working papers have been presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Pisa:

Dodeigne, Morales, & Vintila — The social and political background of citizens of immigrant origin MPs: are they any different from other MPs?

Fernandes, Dodeigne, & Morales — The access of CIO legislators to positions of influence in the parliamentary arena

Vintila, Konstantinidou, Guerra, Morales, & Ramiro — The Political Representation of Citizens of Immigrant Origin in Spain, Italy and Greece

3rd General Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments

DATE: June 30th— July 2nd 2016

VENUE: Maximilianeum (Bavarian State Parliament), Munich, Germany

PATHWAYS members had the opportunity to present their work at the bi-annual conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, receiving extensive feedback from junior and senior legislative scholars. The following papers have been presented: